It would seem that space--on this theory--would be as instantaneous as the instants, and that some explanation is required of the relations between the successive instantaneous spaces.

The materialistic theory is however silent on this point; and the succession of instantaneous spaces is tacitly combined into one persistent space.

This theory is a purely intellectual rendering of experience which has had the luck to get itself formulated at the dawn of scientific thought.

It has dominated the language and the imagination of science since science flourished in Alexandria, with the result that it is now hardly possible to speak without appearing to assume its immediate obviousness.
But when it is distinctly formulated in the abstract terms in which I have just stated it, the theory is very far from obvious.

The passing complex of factors which compose the fact which is the terminus of sense-awareness places before us nothing corresponding to the trinity of this natural materialism.